The practitioner and practice are like fire and wood. The more you practice, the more you burn.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Don't be afraid of the future. The future is good.

The path is not about perfecting ourselves, but about perfecting our love.

The snow lion stays in the mountains, and the snow lion's ways are the snow lion's ways.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy. This is the goal of Buddhist practice.

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

The farther you enter into truth, the deeper it is.

When you are you, Zen is Zen. Big mind is just big mind.

The biggest prison is the one we build in our own mind.

Mindfulness is the gentle effort to be continuously present with experience.

The mind is like a wild monkey, jumping here and there. But through meditation, we learn to see whatever arises in our mind with more spaciousness and clarity.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.

The obstacle is the path.

Love is not a feeling. It's a capability.

Moment after moment, completely devote yourself to listening to your inner voice.

Buddhist practice is not to eliminate life's problems but to grow with them patiently and with compassion.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

Peace in oneself, peace in the world.

You are the master of your own mind. You can be your best friend or your worst enemy.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

Those who grasp at things as truly existent are like someone trying to catch the reflection of the moon in water.

Instead of having a deep understanding of the teaching, we need a strong confidence in our teaching, which says that originally we have Buddha nature.

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope for a better past.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

Nothing can harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts.

Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.